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    North Korea expert: 'No way to stop' Kim Jong Un's regime

    North Korea expert: 'No way to stop' Kim Jong Un's regime

    By Katherine Lam
    Published September 14, 2017 Fox News

    There’s “no way to stop” Kim Jong Un’s regime and its missile and nuclear program, a North Korea expert told Fox News on Thursday, the warning coming amid Pyongyang's continued threats to sink Japan and blast the U.S. “into ashes and darkness.”

    Leading Seoul-based North Korea expert Andrei Lankov told Fox News that Kim Jong Un is accelerating his missile and nuclear program “much faster than anybody expected.”


    “They want to get the point of having a sufficient number of intercontinental ballistic missiles capable of destroying a sufficient number of American cities,” Lankov said.

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    North Korea's state media on Sept. 3 said leader Kim Jong Un inspected the loading of a hydrogen bomb into a new intercontinental ballistic missile. (KCNA via AP)


    The expert expressed doubt about reining in North Korea’s trajectory in achieving its military goal, adding the use of any “military force” would send the peninsula into war. He said sanctions and regional diplomacy wouldn’t work, either.

    “I don’t think, unfortunately, there is no way to stop them,” Lankov said. “No way…A use of military force, but that would result in a second Korean war. That would be an absolute disaster.”


    He added: “They will not want to talk about denuclearization…they could talk about a nuclear freeze…in exchange for political and economic concessions."


    WHY RUSSIA PROPS UP THE DANGEROUS NORTH KOREAN REGIME


    Lankov provided a glimmer of hope amid the dour analysis, saying he’s only “mildly worried” and believes Kim is rational and knows a war with the U.S. would end his regime.


    “It is alarming, there is the probability of mistakes, misunderstandings, stupidity…just bad luck,” Lankov added.


    North Korea continued its bombastic and bellicose threats against the U.S. and its neighbors on Thursday – this time vowing to sink Japan with a nuclear bomb and reduce the U.S. “into ashes and darkness.”

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    Kim Jung Un, center, using binoculars to watch the launch of a Hwasong-14 intercontinental ballistic missile, ICBM, in North Korea's northwest. (AP)


    "The four islands of the archipelago should be sunken into the sea by the nuclear bomb of Juche. Japan is no longer needed to exist near us," a statement released by the state’s official Korean Central News Agency said. “Let’s reduce the U.S. mainland into ashes and darkness. Let’s vent our spite with mobilization of all retaliation means which have been prepared till now."

    Japan’s Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga called the threat “extremely provocative and outrageous" and said it “significantly escalates tension in the region and is absolutely unacceptable.”


    South Korea President Moon Jae-in on Thursday dismissed the notion of developing or receiving nuclear arms in an attempt to deter the North, according to Yonhap News Agency.


    "I share the view that the South has to increase its defense capabilities in response to the North's advancing nuclear and missile capabilities, but I don't agree to the idea of South Korea developing nuclear arms on its own or seeking the redeployment of tactical nukes," he said.

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    Kim Jong Un, center, visits the Chemical Material Institute of Academy of Defense Science at an undisclosed location in North Korea. (KCNA via AP)


    A new round of sanctions against North Korea was issued on Monday after the United Nations Security Council voted unanimously to pass the resolution which bans all natural gas liquids and condensates but caps crude oil imports. All textile exports are also banned and countries are prohibited from authorizing new work permits for North Korean workers.

    THE WORLD IS FIXATED NORTH KOREA'S LEADER, MISSILES. SO WHY DO WE CONTINUE TO OVERLOOK ITS FORLORN PEOPLE?


    But despite efforts to sink the regime’s economy, North Korea seems to be moving forward with its nuclear and missile program, reportedly resuming work at its underground nuclear testing site, according to defense analysts. A report by 38 North said satellite images captured a large cargo truck at the Punggye-ri Nuclear Test Site on Sept. 8, possibly prepping for another nuclear detonation. The regime conducted its sixth nuclear test earlier this month.


    “Such activity, coming shortly after the largest underground nuclear test conducted

    at Punggye-ri to date (via the North Portal), suggests that onsite work could now be changing focus to further prepare those other portals for future underground nuclear testing,” the report said.

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    Duh. There is no way other than military action to stop North Korea from developing and using nuclear weapons.
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    There would be no Kim Jong Un or second Korean war if we dropped one of our biggest nukes on Pyongyang via ICBM. We should have authorized nukes when MacArthur asked for them!

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    Trump: Options for North Korea are 'effective and overwhelming'

    By Dan Merica and Kevin Liptak, CNN
    Updated 4:37 PM ET, Fri September 15, 2017

    Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump and his top national security advisers said Friday there are military options available for dealing with the North Korea crisis, despite some experts and former Trump allies saying that there are no good options for the region.

    Speaking at Joint Base Andrews, the Air Force installation outside Washington, Trump declared that American military options were robust should they be required to respond to threats from Pyongyang.

    "After seeing your capabilities and commitment here today, I am more confident than ever that our options in addressing this threat are both effective and overwhelming," Trump said inside an airplane hanger, surrounded by US airmen and with a looming stealth bomber positioned behind him.


    "America and our allies will never be intimidated," Trump said. "We will defend our people, our nations, and our civilization, from all who dare to threaten our way of life. This includes the regime of North Korea, which has one again shown its utter contempt for its neighbors, and the entire world community."



    North Korea launches missile over Japan


    Ahead of his remarks, both national security adviser H.R. McMaster and US Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley stressed during a White House briefing on the United Nations General Assembly that Trump did have military options to stop North Korea. Though they aren't their top choices for the region, Haley and McMaster said, they are available to the President.

    "For those who have said, and been commenting about a lack of a military option, there is a military option," McMaster said. "Now it is not what we would prefer to do."



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    Haley said that the UN has "strangled their economic situation at this point" but the results of that are going to "take a little time but it has always tried to take effect."

    "What we are seeing is they continue to be provocative, they continue to be reckless. And at that point there is not a whole lot the security council is going to be able to do from here when you have cut 90% of the trade and 30% of the oil," she said. "So, having said that, I have no problem with kicking it to (Defense Secretary James) Mattis because I think he has plenty of options."


    Former top White House aide Steve Bannon told a reporter in August that there are no military solutions for North Korea.


    "Forget it. Until somebody solves the part of the equation that shows me that ten million people in Seoul don't die in the first 30 minutes from conventional weapons, I don't know what you're talking about," he said. "There's no military solution here, they got us."


    At the time, multiple other White House officials looked to refute Bannon's view.


    "We are prepared, we're prepared militarily, we're prepared with our allies to respond militarily," Secretary of State Rex Tillerson told reporters, speaking at the close of US-Japan security meetings with Mattis.


    Mattis agreed, saying at the time that "there are strong military consequences if the DPRK initiates hostilities."


    North Korea has been the most perplexing foreign policy problemfacing the Trump administration in its first year in office, with their now repeated missile tests and one nuclear test putting pressure on the President to have a plan should tensions escalate.


    North Korea fired a ballistic missile over the northern Japanese island of Hokkaido Friday local time, the latest in a stream of missile tests that have looked to defy the international community.


    The launch is the second to flyover Japan in less than a month, and the first since North Korea's sixth nuclear test and new United Nations sanctions on the country.


    Trump has threatened "fire and fury" in response to North Korea's threats.

    http://www.cnn.com/2017/09/15/politi...rea/index.html

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    There will be no winners in a war - especially a nuclear war.

    Again, I'm not sure what would make NK suddenly decide it is upset with the US?

    It is a long way away from us. We don't have much commercial dealings with them , do they?

    Before the American people let themselves get whipped into supporting another war, we had better find out.

    We need to ask ourselves if we are willing to loose our loved ones to prove we can 'take' NK? Remember, Pres. Trump and most, if not all, of those in Congress have no one in peril should we have a war. They have a way of protecting their own - its just our loved ones who have to fight.

    One thing I believe, NK will not be the push over Iraq, Libya, Afghanistan, and Syria was. I just think NK is letting the world and the US know they have teeth.

    The war talk is the biggest disappointment for me - even more than his action on illegal immigration.

    His sending more troops to Afghanistan is very sad. Our military should not be used to fight wars and protect the interests of corporations.

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    We can not allow North Korea to have nuclear weapons. They only have them and want them for one reason and that is to use them against the United States.

    They think they are the little engine that could, and when they can, they will.
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